billy kent director
According to Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe, Billy Kent’s feature directorial film The Oh in Ohio “recalls Paul Mazursky’s astute sex comedies.” Morris goes on to say The Oh in Ohio “is one of the sweetest, smartest sex comedies I’ve ever seen.”
A senior principal of Love Lane Pictures, Billy Kent is the director, producer, and co-author of HairBrained. He is an award-winning feature and commercial director whose work has been seen nationally and internationally since 1993. Billy’s feature debut, The Oh in Ohio, stars Parker Posey, Danny DeVito, Paul Rudd, Mischa Barton, Heather Graham, and Liza Minnelli. Over the last fourteen years Billy has directed over 200 commercials and 11 short films. His commercial budgets have exceeded $35 million. He has developed a reputation for inventive, beautifully stylized comedy. His series of political satire and parody commercials for MTV helped define the network's place in America's cultural lexicon.
The Oh in Ohio premiered at South by Southwest in 2006, won Best Comedy at the Vail Film Festival, the Audience Award at The Brooklyn International Film Festival, and was the closing night spotlight film at the Provincetown Film Festival. The film premiered in Europe at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and played in France at the Deauville Film Festival. The Oh in Ohio ran in theaters domestically from July to November 2006 and was released by HBO on DVD in December of 2006.
Billy is a graduate of Vassar College and The American Film Institute.
